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To: pby

Yes. He even wrote his own bible honoring Jesus.


281 posted on 12/04/2009 11:04:31 AM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: ColdWater
You are revising history to fit your own current debate point.

Jefferson declared that he was a materialist and that he did not believe in the doctrines of Jesus. This, of course, led to his writing of the "The Exaltation of a Reasonable Deity: Thomas Jefferson’s BIBLE of Christianity", which is described as follows:

The Jefferson Bible begins with an account of Jesus’s birth without references to angels, genealogy, or prophecy. Miracles, references to the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus, and Jesus' resurrection are also absent from the Jefferson Bible. (Erik Reece, "Jesus Without The Miracles - Thomas Jefferson's Bible and the Gospel of Thomas," Harper's Magazine, v. 311, n. 1867 (Dec. 1, 2005).

Jefferson concluded (given the virgin birth,the resurrection and all that crazy super natural stuff) that the Jesus of the Bible was an unreasonable deity. Therefore, Jefferson created his own super natural free and reasonable Jesus. Unfortunately, the Jesus that he created is not the Jesus of Bible, nor is it the Jesus of the Christian faith.

Jefferson's bible is not consistent with Christianity, nor is it Jesus honoring in any way.

309 posted on 12/04/2009 11:26:15 AM PST by pby
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